writers [Footnote: Compare, for example, the brief and inaccurate
account in Olmstead, _Sargon_, 112 ff., with that in
thureau-Dangin, _op. cit._ on the basis of the new tablet]
furnishes the clearest indication of the unsatisfactory character of
our recital so long as we must rely entirely on the Annals. It is the
discovery of conditions like these which forces us to subject our
official inscriptions to the most rigid scrutiny before we dare use
them in our history. [Footnote: Botta, _Monuments de Ninive_,
pi. 70 ff.; 104 ff.; 158fL.; Winckler, _Sargon_ II. pl. 1
ff. Oppert in Place, _Ninive_, II. 309 ff.; _Les Inscriptions
de Dour Sarkayan_, 29 ff.; RP: VII. 21 ff.; Menant, 158 ff.;
Winckler, _De inscriptione quae vocatur Annalium_, 1886;
_Sargon_, I. 3 ff.]




CHAPTER VI

ANNALS AND DISPLAY INSCRIPTIONS

(Sennacherib and Esarhaddon)


Of the sources for the reign of Sennacherib (705-686), [Footnote: The
only fairly complete collection of sources for the reign is still
Smith-Sayce, _History of Sennacherib_, 1878, though nearly all
the data needed for a study of the Annals are given by Bezold,
KB. II. 80 ff. Extracts, Rogers, 340 ff. Cf. also Olmstead, _Western
Asia in the reign of Sennacherib, Proceedings of Amer. Historical